On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change

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Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection (2013, background): “Many of the emotional associations that drive System 1 risk perceptions, it is posited, originate in (or are reinforced by) the sorts of affinity groups that share cultural or ideological commitments (Leiserowitz, 2005; Sunstein, 2007).”
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing (2017, unknown): “…bias, denominator neglect, the availability heuristic, and the like—originates in a deficit either in the capacity or in the motivation to correct intuitions and preconceptions based on available information (Jost et al., 2013; Lodge & Taber, 2013; Sunstein, 2006, 2007; Weber & Stern, 2011).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, background): “Indeed, “by definition, the idea of cultural cognition is to illuminate risk perceptions only for those risks that are culturally contested” (Sunstein, 2007, p. 17).”
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government (2017, background): “SCT is an extremely popular explanation for conflicts over climate change and various other disputed risks, particularly among commentators who construct secondary interpretive accounts by synthesizing diverse findings from decision science (Sunstein, 2005, 2006, 2007).”